If you’ve seen Control, you’re probably wondering where she is as well.
We like how apt it is for Natalie Curtis to find love in taking photographs (above), and might we add, rather rich and almost foretelling ones too; as if something is about to happen. Much respect due, to a karmic symphony of twined lives coming full circle.
Given 20 secs for 20 slides (6 mins 40 secs in total) for the first Pecha Kucha Night in Singapore, come hear us gloat about how we artfully tip-toe into the office when we’re late every morning, have long lunches with the additional 5 teabreaks a day, and skillfully surf design blogs and Martha’s recipes when boss is not looking. He’s probably doing that himself.
Pecha Kucha (the sound of Japanese chit-chatting) Night was conceived in 2003 as a place for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. Devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham architecture), it is the first time Pecha Kucha happens in Singapore, and we’ve been fortunate enough to be given this opportunity to present.
So see you there!
Seems like only Ryan McGinley knows. And seems like only he knows how to capture the golden days of youth. The lost, the confused, the audacious, the insane, the ardent youth.
I Know Where the Summer Goes, Ryan McGinley’s latest exhibition, is running from the 3rd of April through the 3rd of May in NYC. Last summer, he took a beautiful and mesmerizing photographic journey with sixteen models and three assistants. Among the resulting 4000 rolls of film, or 150,000 photographs, fifty were chosen for the exhibit. The amateurish images were inspired by those in nudist magazines in the 60s and early 70s, and McGinley once again shows us what he’s best at. Emotional young adults frolicking in the middle of nowhere, against vast and surreal landscape, like how one’s youth was seemingly endless and dreamlike, and one morning when you wake up, it’s gone.
Go run wild in the golden field till your heart aches and never look back, and while you’re at it, go listen to I Know Where the Summer Goes by Belle and Sebastian, and be remembered that the youth is still with us as long as the summer comes back.
Aitor Throup’s fascination of the human anatomy is articulated through his rather wearable costume garments that breathe of fictional characters in their own space and time. His CSM MA collection, “When Football Hooligans Became Hindu Gods”, is based on his conceptual comic book story of 8 remorseful football hooligans that transform into Hindu gods after taking the live of a Hindu boy.
Imagine personifying the Hindu man/lion god Narasimha by shaping the hood of a jacket like a lions head or the Hindu god of death Shiva by adorning a jacket with skulls that double up as bags. Do see and read more about this impressively authentic collection from Katie’s well researched write-up here.
His most recent collection “The Funeral of New Orleans” is a two part story about 5 musicians who die while protecting their instruments during hurricane Katrina. Part 1 displays garments made from instrument cases that transform in shape and function according to the musician’s needs. Pocketed-gloves to supposedly help the musicians protect their instruments. All the “musician’s garments” were sculptured to fit their pose while playing their specific instrument, so they may seem ill fitting when normal but when the musician is playing his instrument in pose, it fits perfectly. You can see the film and read more about this collection on ShowStudio’s blog here
We’re absolutely itching in anticipation for Part 2 which will be a collection of what we believe to be, after the musicians pass on. We sincerely cannot honour enough respect to how original, how well conceived, how playful and yet how functional his collections are. Now all we need is Guillermo Del Toro to turn Aitor’s comic book drawings into movies and Jonny Greenwood to produce the soundtrack and it’ll be a blockbuster for sure. In the meantime, stay tuned for Part 2.
What happens when heavy Helveticas drop into water?
They turn into sinking minutes and seconds and run out before you realize it.
Dropclock is an aesthetically intriguing clock screensaver designed and art directed by Yugo Almighty Nakamura.
Go download it and observe the slow and graceful movement of time.
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